L’uomo più bello del mondo

The Most Beautiful Man in the World

Forum Special 2026

Most families have relatives who have been blotted out of their history, and these gaps also point to the motives behind these omissions. “The most beautiful man in the world” left behind just 25 photographs after his death. His nephew Paolo deliberately steps out of the family’s historiography to let the AI tool Google Vision API interpret the images of his uncle Michele. Criteria like class, education, etcetera now identify the beautiful, deceased man as a potential consumer. When Paolo shows his mother the photos of Michele, she reorganises them in line with her memories. Paolo’s questions to his mother shed light on the 1980s and 1990s, when drugs and AIDS shook Italy. Speculative narrative fragments critically balance each other out. Michele is brought back into the family fold and becomes visible as a figure of contemporary history.

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by Paolo Baiguera (Director) Italy 2026 Italian, English 17' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Director	Paolo Baiguera
Editing	Paolo Baiguera
Producers	Andrea Gatopoulos, Tommaso Bertani, Graziano Chiscuzzu

Produced by

Il Varco Cinema

Rom

Ring Film

Rom, Italy

5e6

Brescia, Italy

World Sales

Gargantua Film Distribution

Rome, Italy

Paolo Baiguera

Paolo Baiguera, born 1998, is a director and filmmaker. He has worked on a range of productions with companies including Sky, Rai, Kon-Tiki Film, Indigo Film, ANG Film, and Ring Film. Since 2023, he has been collaborating with Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis on the feature Testa O Croce? (Heads or Tails?), selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. His debut short film El pütì pèrs (The Lost Child) premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Critics’ Week where it received a special mention.

Filmography

2025 El pütì pèrs (The Lost Child); short film 2026 L’uomo più bello del mondo (Most Beautiful Man in the World); short film

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026